Autumn is here and we are ready to launch our IV Issue of The Global Square Magazine. For us, it is also a time to reconnect with our growing community of readers. Consistent with the season we are entering into, we have conceived of this new issue as an autumn stroll in our global square while its ground is being covered by falling leaves with enticing essays written on them.

We welcome the arrival of summer with a new Issue of our Global Square Magazine. Our Issue 3 is devoted to a rare quality: vision. Being endowed with vision, cultivating it and using it for the betterment of society is a trait shared by few people and we want to celebrate them.

We are immersed in an ocean of Big Data, increasingly surrounded by algorithms and dominated by structural forces that are rendering meaningless our human agency…or so we are said, though we beg to differ. Thus, we have conceived of our Spring Issue as a celebration of the individual in the Global Square.

We like the playful and thoughtful interaction of words, music and images; we care about the preservation and transmission of culture and the environment; we are both worried and hopeful about the current state of the world; we think positively but not naively about technology and innovation and we want to reconnect science and the humanities for the service of mankind.